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Verb recall has 7 senses
- remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think - recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories"
Sample sentence:
They won't recall the story
- hark back, return, come back, recall - go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"
--2 is one way to denote, refer
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- echo, recall - call to mind; "His words echoed John F. Kennedy"
--3 is one way to resemble
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- recall, call back - summon to return; "The ambassador was recalled to his country"; "The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession"
--4 is one way to call, send for
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- recall - cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression; "She was recalled by a loud laugh"
--5 is one way to concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore, rivet
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- recall - make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution; "The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty"
--6 is one way to cancel, strike down
Antonyms: issue, supply
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- recall, call in, call back, withdraw - cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"
--7 is one way to take
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Somebody ----s something
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